On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 00:29 Jay Lan wrote: | a4700rac:/boot # date; makedumpfile -c -d31 -x | /boot/vmlinux-2.6.27-rc5-default /proc/vmcore | /mnt/sda9/diskdump/vmcore-2.6.27-rc5-default; date | Wed Sep 10 14:31:56 PDT 2008 | Can't distinguish the pgtable. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ | The kernel version is not supported. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ | The created dumpfile may be incomplete. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ | Copying data : [100 %] Jay, In addition to what other folks have mentioned about giving the latest crash version a try, I'd like to point out that makedumpfile did spit a couple of warnings while creating the vmcore | Can't distinguish the pgtable. | The kernel version is not supported. | The created dumpfile may be incomplete. these warnings added to the fact that later on crash choked with | NOTE: page_hash_table does not exist in this kernel | crash: page excluded: kernel virtual address: e000006003108e00 type: seem to suggest that the makedumpfile warnings could be relevant to the end result. One useful experiment would be to find out whether a makdedumpfile generated vmcore, from the one you saved with cp, does exhibit the same problem. Cheers, Hedi. -- Hedi Berriche GPS Unix http://www.sgi.com/support
